Shared vs. Dedicated Hosts

Is your site huge and needs its own server(s) or is it small enough to share a server with other web sites? Knowing the options you have for shared and dedicated hosting can help you make that decision.

Shared hosting is the most common and certainly the least expensive way to host your site, and is the primary focus of this web hosting directory. Web hosts in this category usually provide anywhere from 20megs of web space to 200megs and range in price from free to about $30 a month. Since 20 megs is equal to about 1000 pages of text, that is usually adequate for small sites.

Shared Free Hosting usually includes a free subdomain (yourname.150m.com) but often includes advertisements on one or more of your homepages, which pays for the free service. However they do provide a paid upgrade option which eliminates the ad banners and provides additonal web space, bandwidth, and support.

Dedicated Hosting costs several hundred dollars a month and is feasible only for businesses with very large and active web sites. Dedicated hosts give each user their own server to use the web space and bandwidth as they please.